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Philadelphia police will consider policy on using Tasers | Baseball
City police are considering whether officers should get involved when unruly but nonthreatening fans sprint onto the field during sporting events, a review begun after a teenager was subdued with a Taser at a Phillies game.
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PHILADELPHIA — City police are considering whether officers should get involved when unruly but nonthreatening fans sprint onto the field during sporting events, a review begun after a teenager was subdued with a Taser at a Phillies game.
A police officer used his stun gun Monday night on 17-year-old Steve Consalvi, who jumped onto the field and ran around in circles in the outfield.
Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey examined video of the arrest and felt the officer acted within department guidelines, which allow officers to use Tasers to arrest fleeing suspects. Police spokesman Lt. Frank Vanore said the department's internal-affairs unit is investigating.
Mariners spokeswoman Rebecca Hale said she doesn't know of a Taser ever being used at Safeco Field. Security employed by the team do not have guns or Tasers. But police officers backing them up can be armed.
"The Seattle police and King County sherriff's officers who work here, even though they're off duty, and they're paid by us, they are acting under the protocol of their department for use of force," Hale said. "Our security people, the unarmed ones, are the first line of defense. The uniformed officers are kind of the backup."
Sgt. John Urquhart, spokesman for the King County Sheriff's Office, said: "No one size fits all. The idea of Tasers is to protect the person from being harmed and the officer from being harmed."
Another fan ran onto the field at Citizens Bank Park during Tuesday night's Phillies game and gave himself up without incident.
Seattle Times staff reporters Larry Stone and Janet Tu contributed to this report.
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